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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel (www.middleeasteye.net)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33487836

By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BST

The New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress' annual defence spending bill for Israel's Iron Dome programme.

Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene's amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.

In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene's amendment did "nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza".

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago

What obvious disingenuous excuse making. And you can tell it's bullshit because this kind of reasoning has never been used in any other place and will never be used again: you do not see AOC advocating to send "defensive" weapons to Iran or Russia, for example, or Gaza for that matter. So if we take her seriously we can only conclude that she actively supports adding to the death count or innocent civilians everywhere except Israel.

So either way, her actions are evil

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